Signing an MOU between Alfaisal and AGH University of Science and Technology

On the 9th of May 2017, a new collaboration was launched by signing a memorandum of understanding between Alfaisal University and AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland. A convoy from AGH, headed by Prof. Jerzy Lis, the AGH UST Vice-Rector for Cooperation, was warmly welcomed to Alfaisal’s campus. After a short tour, the guests and members of Alfaisal’s executive management, including its president H. E. Prof. Mohammed Al Hayaza, discussed in depth the numerous ways of collaboration in fields such as, academic research, the commercialization of new innovations, the localization of technology in Saudi Arabia, as well as educational development of both institutions.

Brief presentations about the history of the collaborating universities, their achievements and joint goals and values were given. Each year, in collaboration with foreign partners, AGH conducts approximately 200 research projects, and has several patents accredited to the brilliant minds of its faculty and students in many areas including, information technologies, new materials and technologies, environment and climatic changes, energy and its resources, and electrical and mechanical engineering.